A thread on UKScrappers has just inspired me to write this.How do you get kids interested in eating healthy food?Get them helping make pizzas. If you have a breadmaker, use the dough setting, chuck in the ingredients on timer if necessary so the dough is ready when they come home from school. Let them make the tomato sauce, really easy, onion finely...
Middle Eastern Tabbouleh Salad
Ingredients 8 oz (225 g) cracked wheat (bulghar) (available from health food shops) 2 oz (50 g) parsley, finely chopped 8 spring onions, finely chopped (including the green parts) 4 tablespoons lemon juice 2 large beef tomatoes, about 1 lb (450 g) 4 inches (10 cm) cucumber, very finely chopped 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil salt...
Thai Green or Red Chicken Curry
Green Thai chicken curry with coriander garnishThai green or red curry with chicken and vegetablesThere is nothing like the aroma of Thai curry to activate your taste buds and I frequently get lots of comments and visitors for tasters on holiday when the smell wafts across the...
Beef Stroganoff
Ingredients 1 onion, sliced 125g button mushrooms, sliced 50g butter 250g sirloin steak 25g plain flour Salt & pepper 1 tablespoon tomato puree 125ml pot sour cream Method Fry the onions in the 25g of the butter until soft add the mushrooms and fry together until soft. Spoon the onions and mushrooms onto a separate plate, keep the...
Courgette fritters
Just had to dream up something for daughter's breakfast and then I remembered a conversation we had on Friday evening about the vegetables she would like to grow in the garden this year. She remembered picking one of her courgettes and then having courgette fritters last year for breakfast. Then I realised that courgettes had arrived this week in...
